Deactivate a profile

At any point in time, you can deactivate an active profile in . The status indicator is yellow for inactive profiles in .

You may decide to deactivate a profile when you encounter issues with LDAP. If you are half way through the configuration setup and you do not want the profile to be acive for user authentication, you can deactivate it. Or If you want to troubleshoot and identify if the issue encounted prevails in the particluar LDAP server, you can deactivate the authentication profile.
The profiles that are listed in Manage Existing Profiles page with yellow status indicators are all inactive or deactivated. By default, the status of a newly created profile is inactive. You can have multiple profiles in the inactive status and reorder them within the list, if required. Deactivated profiles are automatically removed from the standalone-full.xml file.
Important: The deactivated profile remains in the Integrated Data Space (IDS) and you can reterive the same profile by activating it. The deactivated profile is permanently removed from the application only when it is deleted.
  1. Log on to the TeamForge as a site administrator and go to the look project.
  2. From the project navigation bar, click AUTH MANAGER.
  3. From the Main Menu pane on the left, click Manage Existing Profiles.
  4. To deactivate all the profiles listed in the Manage Existing Profiles page, click Deactivate All.
  5. To deactivate a particular profile in the Manage Existing Profiles page, click the profile name that needs to be deactivated. The profile details are displayed.
    Note: Ensure that the current status of the profile is active and marked green.
  6. Click Deactivate.
    Note: This button is visible only if the current status of the profile is active; scroll down to see this.
  7. On the confirmation window, click ok to proceed. The profile is deactivated now and the status turns yellow.
Parent topic: Manage authentication profiles